$ diff deepseek-v4-pro-0813 kimi-k3
DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 vs Kimi K3
Values come from DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 and Kimi K3, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
DeepSeekDeepSeek V4-Pro-0813
- context
- 1.0M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- $0.66
- $/M out
- $1.98
- context
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- $3
- $/M out
- $15
What actually differs
- Context window
- DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 takes 1.0M against 1M — modestly more room in a single request.
- Input price
- DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 at $0.66/M against $3/M — 4.5× cheaper to feed. Standard rates: one of these labs also quotes a lower cached-input tier, which applies only when a prefix is reused — see the full spec below.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 at $1.98/M against $15/M — 7.6× cheaper to generate. Output dominates the bill on most agentic workloads, where the model writes far more than it reads.
- Weights
- Both publish weights — DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 under MIT (open-weight, as reported), Kimi K3 under Modified MIT (commercial use permitted; weights publicly downloadable). Check the licences rather than assuming they permit the same commercial use.
- Recency
- DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 shipped 28 days after Kimi K3 (2026-08-13 vs 2026-07-16).
Full spec
| Attribute | DeepSeek V4-Pro-0813 | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | DeepSeek | Moonshot AI |
| Released | 2026-08-13 | 2026-07-16 |
| Context window | 1,048,576 (1M) — 384K max output | 1M tokens |
| Pricing | $0.66/M input (cache miss) · $1.98/M output off-peak; $1.32 · $3.96 at peak — see Pricing | $0.30/M cache-hit input · $3.00/M cache-miss input · $15.00/M output |
| License | MIT (open-weight, as reported) | Modified MIT (commercial use permitted; weights publicly downloadable) |
| Availability | DeepSeek API (Responses format, Codex-adapted), Hugging Face (`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813`) | Kimi Code, Kimi app, Kimi API; weights on Hugging Face (`moonshot-ai/kimi-k3`, released 2026-07-27) |